Alan Kay Quotes, Wisdom Quotes

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

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When we are at the end of life, to die means to go away; when we are at the beginning, to go away means to die.

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Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

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The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.

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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

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Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called 'walking.'

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. . . integral wisdom involves a direct participation in every moment: the observer and the observed are dissolved in the light of pure awareness, and no mental concepts or attitudes are present to dim that light.

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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

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Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

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Silence does not always mark wisdom.

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There is a way of meeting error while on the road of truth.

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Even here in America, we felt the cool, refreshing breeze of freedom when Nelson Mandela took the seat of Presidency in his country where formerly he was not even allowed to vote. We were enlarged by tears of pride as we saw Nelson Mandela's former prison guards invited, courteously, by him to watch from the front rows his inauguration.

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A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.

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Many times I heard Imam Ahmad saying (when asked to give his opinion) on controversial scholarly issues 'I do not know.'

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It was modesty that invented the word "philosopher" in Greece and left the magnificent overweening presumption in calling oneselfwise to the actors of the spirit--the modesty of such monsters of pride and sovereignty as Pythagoras, as Plato.

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Behind your thoughts and feelings, my brother, there stands a mighty ruler. an unknown sage - whose name is self. In yourt body he dwells; he is your body. There is more reason in your body than in your best wisdom.

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He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

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